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. >> here's how speaker john boehner responded. quote, the house will take action that reflects the fundamental fact that americans don't want a government shutdown. they don't want the train wreck that is obama care. grand standing from the president who refuses to even be part of the process won't bring congress any closer to a resolution. david, to you, your thoughts as you approach this sunday's program and what looks like a pretty dreary weekend for compromise. >> i think it is dreary. i've got senator ted cruz as my exclusive guest on sunday. he's in the middle of this. but i think you raised the key point. what is the end game? the president's not going to give on obama care. republicans are not going to come home as senator cruz hopes they will with another shot to vote on defunding obama care. and senator cruz talks about rallying the american people who are so engaged in this. are there a lot of protests around the country, people who want to unwind obama care at this point? surely it is unpopular, there's no question abo
. >> here's how speaker john boehner responded. quote, the house will take action that reflects the fundamental fact that americans don't want a government shutdown. they don't want the train wreck that is obama care. grand standing from the president who refuses to even be part of the process won't bring congress any closer to a resolution. david, to you, your thoughts as you approach this sunday's program and what looks like a pretty dreary weekend for compromise. >> i think it is...
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speaker boehner would be speak fer that happens. i think he would lose the spikership. >> so as long as boehner does nothing, he'll hang onto his job as speaker. what a joke. eric abrahamson is a professor at columbia university business school and specializes in workplace leadership. he calls people who get paid to do nothing the michelangelos of work avoidance. and he's laid out the strategy they use to do nothing at work by always keep their job. first, spend as little time at your desk as possible, as the professor says, if people don't think of you, they can't give you work. this is something that speaker boehner has perfected. in the first session of this congress, they spent just 19 days at work and they left on another long weekend last night. second, deploy a good natured form of cluelessness. as the professor explains, the principle is you try to give work to a person and come to the conclusion that they can't even understand the instructions. cue speaker boehner. >> we should not have to move a third bill before the senat
speaker boehner would be speak fer that happens. i think he would lose the spikership. >> so as long as boehner does nothing, he'll hang onto his job as speaker. what a joke. eric abrahamson is a professor at columbia university business school and specializes in workplace leadership. he calls people who get paid to do nothing the michelangelos of work avoidance. and he's laid out the strategy they use to do nothing at work by always keep their job. first, spend as little time at your...
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all i have to do is be ideologically in synch with them and i'm covered. >> boehner's empowering these people. he won't face them down. so they feel like they have a lot of muscle. they can even defy the wall street journal page. >> i think if boehner does the same thing he'll be there for five more minutes. >>> a big dog, he love does do all the things obama hates doing, and right now the president could use some help. >>> and two groups are working against the voter photo id law. >>> and the ceo of starbucks coming here. he says he loves your business, but please keep the guns at home. >>> and why would any normal person want to detonate the american economy? this is "hardball," place for politics. >>> here's a big reason republicans should be worried heading into next year's elections. according to our poll, women are leaning more toward the democrats than they were even in 2010 or 2012. women prefer democrats by a margin of 51% than 36%. that's a spread of 15 points. and white women who went republican in the last elections now lean democrat. so if they fail to win next election it
all i have to do is be ideologically in synch with them and i'm covered. >> boehner's empowering these people. he won't face them down. so they feel like they have a lot of muscle. they can even defy the wall street journal page. >> i think if boehner does the same thing he'll be there for five more minutes. >>> a big dog, he love does do all the things obama hates doing, and right now the president could use some help. >>> and two groups are working against the...
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where is boehner? >> maybe he wants to keep distance. it's red meat he's taking for the base, but he's not officially saying it himself, but we have seen the story on the domestic front a lot, like if obama is for it, we're against it, and we're going to find what principle justifies our opposition. >> let's go back to the world of common sense. americans are incredibly rational, except maybe some tea party people. they see putin, look him in the face, and say this guy is not a good guy. he's got thumb screws in the basement somewhere. you don't know what he's doing with the kgb. he's for syria, we're not. he doesn't want to help us with iran. we're at a war with iran. name an issue. he's got snowden with a visa. of course, we're a little ticked at him. what's new? we should be ticked with him. >> to go ahead with this summit after the snowden episode, they would have just bickered with each other, nothing would have been accomplished, and the united states had to indicate to him that we're mad at him. we're mad at him, not just because
where is boehner? >> maybe he wants to keep distance. it's red meat he's taking for the base, but he's not officially saying it himself, but we have seen the story on the domestic front a lot, like if obama is for it, we're against it, and we're going to find what principle justifies our opposition. >> let's go back to the world of common sense. americans are incredibly rational, except maybe some tea party people. they see putin, look him in the face, and say this guy is not a good...
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that's his plan. >> do you accept the criticism of boehner? >> boehner keeps saying where is the plan. there is a plan. he just doesn't like the plan. >> that may be true, but the house put two plans on the floor. they were voted on. they weren't voted on in the senate. you know, yeah, the senate voted -- >> their plan was to take all the cuts out in the military and put them in social -- >> but, david, you have to start someplace, and the problem is democrats don't want to start where you need to start, and that is having an honest conversation about what are you prepared to cut, david corn? what are you prepared to cut, president obama? what are you prepared to put on the table? we've given you $600 billion in january in new revenue with no cuts. so show me some cuts, and then we can start talking about how serious you are. >> 16 months ago the president, against some of the desires of people within his own party, did put things on the table. changed cpi for social security, medicare cuts. he did, and they came up with -- >> he used the word
that's his plan. >> do you accept the criticism of boehner? >> boehner keeps saying where is the plan. there is a plan. he just doesn't like the plan. >> that may be true, but the house put two plans on the floor. they were voted on. they weren't voted on in the senate. you know, yeah, the senate voted -- >> their plan was to take all the cuts out in the military and put them in social -- >> but, david, you have to start someplace, and the problem is democrats...
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here's boehner's reaction. here's boehner's reaction here. "if the president believes those modest entitlement savings are needed to shore up these problems, there's no reason they should be held hostage for more tax hikes. that's no way to lead the country." this is like the russians, the soviets used to be. i'll take what you're offering then we'll negotiate back from there. he's not giving anything here. >> yeah, let's think about what that position is, and i think how few people at home would support that. he's saying that as part of a larger deficit reduction plan which is part of an economic strategy to strengthen jobs in our economy, that there's not, are you ready for this? there's not one single penny, not one, that you can get from any tax expenditure, any special interest tax break, any loophole for the most well-off american that you can apply for deficit reduction. you know, i just do believe that there are sensible republicans and democrats who want to be part of what the president said is a common sense caucus. and they underst
here's boehner's reaction. here's boehner's reaction here. "if the president believes those modest entitlement savings are needed to shore up these problems, there's no reason they should be held hostage for more tax hikes. that's no way to lead the country." this is like the russians, the soviets used to be. i'll take what you're offering then we'll negotiate back from there. he's not giving anything here. >> yeah, let's think about what that position is, and i think how few...
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anybody with any sense, and i actually put john boehner in that category know that. >> howard fineman, thank you a. well. >>> up next, the dramatic filibuster in texas. will abortion rights advocates across the country use the same playbook we saw tuesday night? you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. bus. and now that the busses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution to the earth. so i feel good. i feel like i'm doing my part to help out the environment. i did? when visa signature asked everybody what upgraded experiences really mattered... you suggested luxury car service instead of "strength training with patrick willis." come on todd! flap them chicken wings. [ grunts ] well, i travel a lot and umm... [ male announcer ] at visa signature, every upgraded experience comes from listening to our cardholders. visa signature. your idea of what a card should be. [ whirring ] [ dog barks ] i want to treat more dogs. ♪ our business needs more cases. [ male announcer ] where do you want to take your business? i need help selling art. [ male announce
anybody with any sense, and i actually put john boehner in that category know that. >> howard fineman, thank you a. well. >>> up next, the dramatic filibuster in texas. will abortion rights advocates across the country use the same playbook we saw tuesday night? you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. bus. and now that the busses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution to the earth. so i feel good. i feel like i'm doing my part to...
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boehner is not alone. house majority whip kevin mccarthy sees the same plot by the democrats. >> this person's main goal is to continue to try to break the republican party. he's out of touch with where america is at with what he's trying to do. >> come on, kevin. all of a sudden the democrats are sitting back in the back room conniving how to take the republicans apart. considering the republicans made it their mission to stop obama at all costs, it's fairly rich they accuse obama of using the same tactics against them. feehery, you're already laughing because the idea that the republicans think there's a big cabal of democrats that sit around and meet and they're saying why don't we get the republicans to say stupid things about black america, against latinos, come out against immigration reform and screw up any chance of being a majority party again, and it's all the democrats. how does anybody really believe that? >> obviously the president would like to see the republicans lose the majority in the hou
boehner is not alone. house majority whip kevin mccarthy sees the same plot by the democrats. >> this person's main goal is to continue to try to break the republican party. he's out of touch with where america is at with what he's trying to do. >> come on, kevin. all of a sudden the democrats are sitting back in the back room conniving how to take the republicans apart. considering the republicans made it their mission to stop obama at all costs, it's fairly rich they accuse obama...
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he's got to take on the right, the center -- boehner from the center right. crazy right behind him who won't let him deal. the president, is he ham strung at all by the bernie sanders of this world, people on the left? >> i don't think he is. they're hopping mad. they've been triangulated. >> explain. >> well, the president took a position in between the congressional democrats and the congressional republicans. bernie sanders, a couple of congressman and all the usual suspects, alphabet soup of the left were all out in lafayette park across from the white house having a protest as if george w. bush was still in there. they're going nuts about it. you know what? this is exactly what president obama needs to have happen because he can say to john boehner, you know what? you've got nuts on your side. well, guess what? >> you know what this looks like? old-timers night for the '60s. when they bring back the players from 50 years ago. bernie, every time i see him in action, i say that reminds me about 1968, '69. is that's him. >> he's the finest vermont senator e
he's got to take on the right, the center -- boehner from the center right. crazy right behind him who won't let him deal. the president, is he ham strung at all by the bernie sanders of this world, people on the left? >> i don't think he is. they're hopping mad. they've been triangulated. >> explain. >> well, the president took a position in between the congressional democrats and the congressional republicans. bernie sanders, a couple of congressman and all the usual...
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that's a message boehner might want to pass joen to his own party as well i'd say. we'll be right back. ust wouldn'. i was spotting, but i had already gone through menopause. these symptoms may be nothing... but they could be early warning signs of a gynecologic cancer, such as cervical, ovarian, or uterine cancer. feeling bloated for no reason. that's what i remember. seeing my doctor probably saved my life. warning signs are not the same for everyone. if you think something's wrong... see your doctor. ask about gynecologic cancer. and get the inside knowledge. nothing. are you stealing our daughter's school supplies and taking them to work? no, i was just looking for my stapler and my... this thing. i save money by using fedex ground and buy my own supplies. that's a great idea. i'm going to go... we got clients in today. [ male announcer ] save on ground shipping at fedex office. >>> welcome back to "hardball." as vice president biden wraps up his week of meetings with stakeholders in the gun debate, outlines of biden's task force proposals are beginning to take
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no real accomplishments under boehner's leadership. he's on the way to becoming the least productive in terms of bills passed that's ever existed. he leads a conference of republicans averse to legislating in the first place. why would we expect any progress henceforth? according to chris cillizza here's what we learned as congress heads off on vacation. boehner has become goal of reac bargain on the budget and a debt is a pipe dream. republicans continue to slow down progress that yields any tangible result. gun control is not happening. senators are retiring at a historic pace, and tea party firebrand rand paul has become the republican party's most powerful spokesman and nonnegotiator. chris cillizza joins us right now along with pennsylvania governor ed rendell. chris, great column. >> thank you. >> because it was so conclusive. this congress has done nothing. no appropriations passed, no budget resolution passed, no continuing resolution ready to go october 1st. the government is fast approaching when they get back from labor day,
no real accomplishments under boehner's leadership. he's on the way to becoming the least productive in terms of bills passed that's ever existed. he leads a conference of republicans averse to legislating in the first place. why would we expect any progress henceforth? according to chris cillizza here's what we learned as congress heads off on vacation. boehner has become goal of reac bargain on the budget and a debt is a pipe dream. republicans continue to slow down progress that yields any...
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you think about speaker boehner, when he publicly says i can't corral, i can't stop the birthers from talking the way they talk, that's just their opinion. and you hear people like john sununu who i thought was a heavyweight republicans for years using terms -- why doesn't the president learn how to be an american? it's not just the one line, it's lots of lines. >> you're absolutely right because the leadership of the republican party as most people see it is the leadership in congress. it's john boehner and mitch mcconnell -- >> and priebus. >> and reince priebus, and if those people aren't realizing the demographic realities, aren't realizing that the party has to be a big tent party if it's ever going to win national elections again, then where goeth the gop? >> let me tell you -- you're laughing -- the weird thing is you're turning off black votes if people vote, but you're also turning out the electorate, alex. the giddy part of this is, as you once said a long time ago, frank rizzo in philly who wasn't too popular hmong african-americans what's the greatest voter register in my
you think about speaker boehner, when he publicly says i can't corral, i can't stop the birthers from talking the way they talk, that's just their opinion. and you hear people like john sununu who i thought was a heavyweight republicans for years using terms -- why doesn't the president learn how to be an american? it's not just the one line, it's lots of lines. >> you're absolutely right because the leadership of the republican party as most people see it is the leadership in congress....
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it was offered originally by boehner and mcconnell. and so you can't on one hand say you want meaningful comprehensive budget deal and then demagogue the president when he comes out and actually embraces a republican proposal. i think the reaction to it is indicative. i think what you heard joe say this morning, what john just said, what speaker boehner said this afternoon, people are walking back a little bit from this because they can't be seen as playing pure politics as we enter into a serious negotiation about our economic future. >> let's take a look, here's speaker boehner. >> i made it clear that i disagree with what chairman walden said. he and i have had a conversation about it, and i expect it to -- this is the least we must do to begin to solve the problems in social security. >> so john feehery, is this -- i mean, that's the rational approach. by the way, scarborough is rational there, too. it seems to me what your party is going to do here, i want michael to jump in here and challenge you. if all your party is going to do
it was offered originally by boehner and mcconnell. and so you can't on one hand say you want meaningful comprehensive budget deal and then demagogue the president when he comes out and actually embraces a republican proposal. i think the reaction to it is indicative. i think what you heard joe say this morning, what john just said, what speaker boehner said this afternoon, people are walking back a little bit from this because they can't be seen as playing pure politics as we enter into a...
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and john boehner -- >> let's get the quote from boehner. you are so funny. here's the boehner quote. thanks, michele bachmann, for your years of service. fine. her comes the best part. a courageous voice for freedom in the people's house. >> yes. she was on the intelligence committee. >> no. what were the requirements to getting in there? >> i think you have to ask. >> okay. >> it's amazing that with these views, she could go as far as she did. but she had a national base. one reason she kept her seat pretty easily up until the last election was that she had millions of people across the country, tens of thousands, who gave her millions of dollars. and i think she -- >> let's try this out. >> she's going to make more money now. >> do you ever go shopping for your family at safeway. go out for milk. i don't know, alex. i guess you do up there. you go by the checkout counter. you see stuff. it's just -- jack kennedy, who by the way his birthday is today, alive in poland. they have a powdered up high school -- he's behind a curtain in poland. they had to make i
and john boehner -- >> let's get the quote from boehner. you are so funny. here's the boehner quote. thanks, michele bachmann, for your years of service. fine. her comes the best part. a courageous voice for freedom in the people's house. >> yes. she was on the intelligence committee. >> no. what were the requirements to getting in there? >> i think you have to ask. >> okay. >> it's amazing that with these views, she could go as far as she did. but she had a...
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boehner has vowed to keep it open. if the president makes threats, it's going to hurt the president. >> he may not be able to keep a single promise he makes because he can't deliver the votes. >> the president's job is to lead. if he's not going to lead -- >> i think he's got a take a stand. part of the politico cast on the white house is it's a highlight splits of the republican party over many issues. in other words, get them to divide. quote, the ambition to split the republican party asunder is part and parcel of the white house's second term game plan. exposing an unpleasant truth for republicans. there's not much unity within the party. we saw in the last campaign, what unites republicans. obama. they don't like him. i think there is a split. you know it better than we do. whether you'll admit it or not. there is a system between practical governing republicans and renegades who want to shut it down in many ways who go off some of these people. alex jones, we saw him the other day. >> and if barack obama decides
boehner has vowed to keep it open. if the president makes threats, it's going to hurt the president. >> he may not be able to keep a single promise he makes because he can't deliver the votes. >> the president's job is to lead. if he's not going to lead -- >> i think he's got a take a stand. part of the politico cast on the white house is it's a highlight splits of the republican party over many issues. in other words, get them to divide. quote, the ambition to split the...
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tonight they're going to have a bunch of -- not mcconnell ar boehner. the president's trying to get behind enemy lines having dinner with 12 republican senators who may be open to making deals and getting past this gridlock. it's like the first supper. not the last supper. >>> anyway, also remember when the word patriot meant something good? now so-called patriots tend to be racist who want to overthrow the government. and a new study says the hate groups have reached an all-time high. by the way, we're going to look at what obama's presidency has done to create this right wing hatred towards the government. >>> and cutting indiscriminately was fine for republicans. but no money for white house tours? cut the whole bunch but not white house tours. the faux outrage is coming up in the sideshow. >>> let me finish tonight with the hatred of obama. if it's not ethnic and racial, what is it? this is "hardball," the place for politics. [ kitt ] you know what's impressive? a talking car. but i'll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge locomotive
tonight they're going to have a bunch of -- not mcconnell ar boehner. the president's trying to get behind enemy lines having dinner with 12 republican senators who may be open to making deals and getting past this gridlock. it's like the first supper. not the last supper. >>> anyway, also remember when the word patriot meant something good? now so-called patriots tend to be racist who want to overthrow the government. and a new study says the hate groups have reached an all-time high....
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house speaker john boehner is sending his own delegation. because of the sequester they'll be flying commercial. we'll be right back. >>> of course i left the race disappointed that i didn't win, but i also left honored and humbled to have represented the values we believe in and to speak for so many good and decent people. we've lost races before in the past, but those setbacks prepared us for larger victories. it's up to us to make sure that we learn from our mistakes and my mistakes and that we take advantage of that learning to make sure that we take back the nation, take back the white house, get the senate and put in place conservative principles. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was, of course, mitt romney, this afternoon addressing the crowd at cpac. he received i believe, a warm response, watching on tv, from the conservative activists out there. was it a last good-bye from a party that has moved on already? in his remarks romney offered little of new advice, beyond a general warning not to be pessimistic about conservatism. he's
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boehner has already blinked in a situation like this and allowed for the washington rationalists to vote with the democrats to make changes. that happened in december. and we're going to be looking at a similar situation, i think, pretty quickly. and i believe air travel is going to be the center of this thing. if you start to see two hour lines at the airport shlgs, you're not going to have to wait three weeks for people to get angry. >> the president has to be very careful not to be seen with his hand in this. >> i think the president has to be a hands-on figure looking and actually genuinely trying to solve problems. trying to avoid crises. if the images that he is gaming this thing for political advantage, that can blow up both ways. he should also be outside of washingt washington sharing the pain. he should do whatever he can to seem highly engaged. >> okay. quick yes or no, mike. you can't have an opinion of strong passion here, but i think that john just made a good point. they would rather go with some kind of revenue increase rather than take this pain. >> let's take a look at
boehner has already blinked in a situation like this and allowed for the washington rationalists to vote with the democrats to make changes. that happened in december. and we're going to be looking at a similar situation, i think, pretty quickly. and i believe air travel is going to be the center of this thing. if you start to see two hour lines at the airport shlgs, you're not going to have to wait three weeks for people to get angry. >> the president has to be very careful not to be...
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while you on the other hand deal with leader reid and speaker boehner. >> during an appointment at the white house last year the first lady gave fallon sop fitness tips. >>> the president did some social towel snapping if you will. >> i want to say thanks to you for being on your best behavior last night. i'm told nothing was broken, no silverware is missing. i didn't get any calls from the neighbors about the noise. although i can't speak for joe's afterparty at the observatory. i hear that was wild. >> well, next the "sideshow" meets the oscars. it comes as no surprise that the iranian government is not jazzed by the movie "argo." the movie is all about how they were duped into believing that their country was being used for a hollywood movie when the whole thing was really a cia operation to free six american hostages. all the same, the results of the academy awards were reported by the iranian news agency including that "argo" had won best picture. do you notice anything off about the snapshot of michelle obama presenting theward. she added extra fabric and sleeves. it didn't pass
while you on the other hand deal with leader reid and speaker boehner. >> during an appointment at the white house last year the first lady gave fallon sop fitness tips. >>> the president did some social towel snapping if you will. >> i want to say thanks to you for being on your best behavior last night. i'm told nothing was broken, no silverware is missing. i didn't get any calls from the neighbors about the noise. although i can't speak for joe's afterparty at the...
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john boehner, eric cantor, everybody else, at least for a few days is going to have to answer the do you support mark sanford's candidacy, do you support him in the house question? >> i love the way you think. you have a great open mind. that's why i love your column. chris cillizza, predicting the unpredicted. >>> joy reid, managing editor of the grio and msnbc political analyst. so, you know, politics is about momentum. every time i'm successful in predicting election, i always go by my rule, find out where the numbers are thursday before the election and track them. and get that vector and you'll know who's going to win. looks like by that standard you cannot predict colbert-busch. not yet. >> definitely what you've seen in the public policy polling, if you just isolate that poll, is the previous poll that they took, you had a sort of demoralized republican electorate. right? the poll was looking something like republican plus five or six. whereas now it's at plus 13. which means republicans are coming home. this is at the end of the day a race where partisan republicans, republic
john boehner, eric cantor, everybody else, at least for a few days is going to have to answer the do you support mark sanford's candidacy, do you support him in the house question? >> i love the way you think. you have a great open mind. that's why i love your column. chris cillizza, predicting the unpredicted. >>> joy reid, managing editor of the grio and msnbc political analyst. so, you know, politics is about momentum. every time i'm successful in predicting election, i always...
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. >> to make karen's point -- let's take a look at what boehner, the speaker of the house had to say. he also is making the point that somehow obama was working over there with his green eye shades, working over there in a long row of typewriters, whatever they still have over there, going over the numbers. here he is blaming the president. i bet president obama doesn't know where the irs is in washington. certainly not in cincinnati. let's listen. >> drip, drip, drip. every day there's something new. we don't know how deep this extends within the administration, and that's why our committees are going to continue to investigate this. but what is most troubling in this white house is that the lights are on, but there doesn't seem to be anybody at home. treasury department knew about this last year. the white house was made aware of it last month. yet no one, no one thought that they should tell the president. fairly inconceivable to me. >> inconceivable. true, actually. in fact, that's the grate irony of our 180 views of things between me and boehner is i think he should have been tol
. >> to make karen's point -- let's take a look at what boehner, the speaker of the house had to say. he also is making the point that somehow obama was working over there with his green eye shades, working over there in a long row of typewriters, whatever they still have over there, going over the numbers. here he is blaming the president. i bet president obama doesn't know where the irs is in washington. certainly not in cincinnati. let's listen. >> drip, drip, drip. every day...
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look, i think -- i know the leaders don't want to do this, boehner, mcconnell, you name it, i don't know how they stop it. i don't see a clear plan by them on how to precht this from happening. >> one other aspect, chris cillizza, i thought it was interesting that the president begins to try to manage expectations with regards to the delivery come october 1st. you heard that reference by way to the iphone, right? when he made reference to apple and the launch of a new product. the president said today stuff, his word, stuff happens. and we all know what he means because you know that the first few glitches with implementation are going to get trumped on fox and talk radio and could set the stage for the 2014 cycle unless they're responded to our managed. >> and, look, you know, i think, michael, this administration has struggled at times whether it's health care, economic stimulus, they have struggled to manage expectations effectively. they've sort of said, well, remember, as soon as the health care law begins to kick in, it's going to get more popular. that wasn't necessarily the case.
look, i think -- i know the leaders don't want to do this, boehner, mcconnell, you name it, i don't know how they stop it. i don't see a clear plan by them on how to precht this from happening. >> one other aspect, chris cillizza, i thought it was interesting that the president begins to try to manage expectations with regards to the delivery come october 1st. you heard that reference by way to the iphone, right? when he made reference to apple and the launch of a new product. the...
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you have boehner without power. you have paul ryan in fantasy land. from a policy perspective. mitch mcconnell is sort of hiding behind maybe waiting for a phone call from joe biden. the president really doesn't have anyone who wants to move as far as he, himself, is willing to move. >> okay. another nail in the coffin. here's something else that will remain in the republican budget this year. $600 billion in tax hikes agreed to in the fiscal cliff deal. paul ryan might have voted in favor of the fiscal cliff deal. many republicans did not. take a look at how congressman jason chaffetz from utah responded to it this morning. let's watch here. another little wrinkle. >> did you vote against the fiscal cliff deal? >> yeah, i did. i did. >> is this budget going to assume the $600 billion in new revenue in the fiscal cliff deal? >> we haven't gotten to the final product. paul has not yet released it. it potentially will. >> do you think it should? >> i want to look at it in its totality. look, at the end of the day you actually have to put numbers on piece of paper and achieve bala
you have boehner without power. you have paul ryan in fantasy land. from a policy perspective. mitch mcconnell is sort of hiding behind maybe waiting for a phone call from joe biden. the president really doesn't have anyone who wants to move as far as he, himself, is willing to move. >> okay. another nail in the coffin. here's something else that will remain in the republican budget this year. $600 billion in tax hikes agreed to in the fiscal cliff deal. paul ryan might have voted in...
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takes on the media for obsessing about president obama's star wars/star trek mix-up while ignoring john boehner calling taxation theft. >>> but first, more on the breaking news story from venezuela. hugo chavez is dead. the venezuelan vice president made the announcement just moments ago. eugene robinson met and knew hugo chavez when he was foreign editor of "the washington post." eugene, what reaction do you have right off the cuff? >> this is a very big story actually. hugo chavez was a fascinating character who first tried to stage a coup to take power in venezuela. that didn't work. he was in the wilderness for several years. he came back, he ran for president, and he became an ally of the castro brothers in cuba and sort of formed this new leftist axis in south america that's had a lot of influence over the last decade in countries like bolivia and countries like ecuador and provided kind of another pole, another sort of not great power but moderate power pole to the counteract the weight of the united states in latin america. >> and, eugene, he was just re-elected this past october, corre
takes on the media for obsessing about president obama's star wars/star trek mix-up while ignoring john boehner calling taxation theft. >>> but first, more on the breaking news story from venezuela. hugo chavez is dead. the venezuelan vice president made the announcement just moments ago. eugene robinson met and knew hugo chavez when he was foreign editor of "the washington post." eugene, what reaction do you have right off the cuff? >> this is a very big story...
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speaker john boehner's office telling sam stein at "huffington post" today, "this is covered by existing law." that is not true at all. in 29 states, there really is no protection in law against you being fired for your sexual orientation. it's even more states for your sexual identity. but the republican explanation for why they will not follow the senate to fix that problem is to deny the factual truth of what existing law is. this is not usually the way we fight over policy in this country. this is a really, really weird one, or as politifact would say, this is totally normal. joining us now for the interview is senator jeff merkley of oregon. he introduced the nda legislation in the current congress and led the effort to pass it in the senate. senator, thank you so much for being with us. nice to have you here. >> you're welcome, rachel. it's great to be with you. >> so, 17 years ago was the last time this nondiscrimination issue was voted on in the senate. it lost by one vote 17 years ago. why are you on a path to pass it in the senate right now, do you think? >> well, the differenc
speaker john boehner's office telling sam stein at "huffington post" today, "this is covered by existing law." that is not true at all. in 29 states, there really is no protection in law against you being fired for your sexual orientation. it's even more states for your sexual identity. but the republican explanation for why they will not follow the senate to fix that problem is to deny the factual truth of what existing law is. this is not usually the way we fight over...
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to the latest scandal mongering from the right as well as a frank assessment of house speaker john boehner. >> if he
to the latest scandal mongering from the right as well as a frank assessment of house speaker john boehner. >> if he
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on saturday word leaked that speaker john boehner had called some of his own members hard heads. and on monday john mccain and marco rubio signed on to an immigration proposal that's not all enforcement. it includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in the states. dana milbank is with me along with joan walsh of salon. joan, are you buying the demise of the tea party argument that dana has made? >> i would love to, but i think it's too soon. and dana says that himself. all of these data points are real. i guess the only one i would take issue with is the bobby jindal characterization. i think bobby jindal remains, i guess talks a good game but remains a conservative force and tea party force. because he's trying to do away with personal income taxes. and he wanted to eliminate hospice care for medicaid patients. so this perspective on spending that the tea party brought certainly hasn't gone away. anytime you've got 36 united states senators who voted down sandy relief a couple days ago, you know that something has fundamentally changed about the way th
on saturday word leaked that speaker john boehner had called some of his own members hard heads. and on monday john mccain and marco rubio signed on to an immigration proposal that's not all enforcement. it includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in the states. dana milbank is with me along with joan walsh of salon. joan, are you buying the demise of the tea party argument that dana has made? >> i would love to, but i think it's too soon. and dana says that...
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that means the house and boehner can hide like groundhogs. they don't have to come out above the ground. they can hide down there and say the senate didn't vote, why should we? >> i think that would be a damn shame. as i said today at a press conference, we've got a situation. if we cannot act now, chris, when we have 20 young children murdered, i mean, the question is, i think this needs to be a wake-up call. sandy hook should have been a wake-up call for all of us. for our society. we're going to allow this to happen. the thing that bothers me most is i know sandy hook presented to us what should have been a transformative moment. and if we fail, chris, it can only get worse. i hate to see what the new norm is with regard to gun safety. >> i agree. your gun trafficking provision was one that seemed like a given a month ago. now it's in peril. the "washington post" reported today "another provision that garnered bipartisan support, making gun trafficking a federal crime, could be gutted if republican lawmakers accept new language being circu
that means the house and boehner can hide like groundhogs. they don't have to come out above the ground. they can hide down there and say the senate didn't vote, why should we? >> i think that would be a damn shame. as i said today at a press conference, we've got a situation. if we cannot act now, chris, when we have 20 young children murdered, i mean, the question is, i think this needs to be a wake-up call. sandy hook should have been a wake-up call for all of us. for our society....
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how far do we have to go with this before you people in the congress say to the people like boehner, you guys cannot hold office if you don't let people vote? >> we will be saying that. but fortunately we have a revolution every two years. we can shoot at the ballot box and elect people that are going to support gun safety and reasonable gun safety measures. i support the second amendment. none of the bills before congress in any way hinder the second amendment. or the right of law-abiding people to own guns. it's going after criminals. it's going after traffickers. it's going after those who want to purchase assault weapons that aren't used to kill animals, they're just used to mow down people. but her language is not helpful, it's extreel. fortunately she wasn't elected. >> let's look at the polls now. because it is a democracy. it's not perfect. let me show you some of the poll numbers from "morning joe." a poll with the marist group today. 60% of all registered voters believe laws covering firearm sales should be stricter. 50/50 on the gun owners. on the issue of background check
how far do we have to go with this before you people in the congress say to the people like boehner, you guys cannot hold office if you don't let people vote? >> we will be saying that. but fortunately we have a revolution every two years. we can shoot at the ballot box and elect people that are going to support gun safety and reasonable gun safety measures. i support the second amendment. none of the bills before congress in any way hinder the second amendment. or the right of...
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it seems to me what the leadership is up to, and you heard it in the side comment the other day from boehner that no matter what he puts up it's going to be trashed because what's up here is an effort to basically bring down the u.s. government so that you can kill obama care, the affordable care act, in its crib and anything that doesn't kill obama care, which has already been enacted into law, passed by both houses by 60 votes in the senate is a matter of u.s. law like any other law, unless that is defunded, basically killed they want the government to come down around us and fail. this is serious revolutionary business. how is the house leadership going to handle it? >> that's a good question. this is i think going to be a bib c big kabuki dance. we all know what the result is going to be. we have to keep the government open. matt might think it's a good idea to shut down the government. i worked for the leadership in '94, '95, '96 when we shut down the government. republicans are going to get blamed if they shut the government down p there's no doubt about that. obama care is a bad law a
it seems to me what the leadership is up to, and you heard it in the side comment the other day from boehner that no matter what he puts up it's going to be trashed because what's up here is an effort to basically bring down the u.s. government so that you can kill obama care, the affordable care act, in its crib and anything that doesn't kill obama care, which has already been enacted into law, passed by both houses by 60 votes in the senate is a matter of u.s. law like any other law, unless...
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did you notice the smile on john boehner's face sitting up there behind the president during the state of the union? if you did, you're imagining things. so afraid of the hard hating right of republicans these days of every stripe, even boehner's scared to death of looking like he might like something barack obama had to say. to do that is to risk political death in these days. let's go at it. our guests are joy reid of the grio and michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee. both are msnbc analysts and good ones. let's take a look at this. is this delay on the hagel vote about playing for time hoping new information comes out about them? "the new york times" reports today that anti-hagel groups are right now hoping for exactly that. quote, leaders of these groups said in interviews that they expected their efforts to include more phone calls urging conservative voters to tell their senators to vote no, new efforts to unearth embarrassing details from mr. hagel's past, and potentially a new round of television advertisements pressuring democrats to drop their
did you notice the smile on john boehner's face sitting up there behind the president during the state of the union? if you did, you're imagining things. so afraid of the hard hating right of republicans these days of every stripe, even boehner's scared to death of looking like he might like something barack obama had to say. to do that is to risk political death in these days. let's go at it. our guests are joy reid of the grio and michael steele, former chairman of the republican national...
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do you think the majority led by people like, well, john boehner and cantor are actually going to put their fingers on an immigration bill and pass it? >> i think they will, chris, and i hope they will. i think especially with the november election, the american people made it clear, i believe, that they want the congress and they want the president to tackle this issue and to finally get it done. i think what we've seen in the last few days is very promising, first with the senate proposal and now the president's proposal. at least we know we're having a serious discussion about it and we're more or less on the same field. >> i have always liked schumer politically and rubio, the fact he's with them, lindsey graham, i respect them all. given who they are. they're all different politics. are you surprised that rubio, who is obviously gunning for the presidency, has been able to make a deal with someone like chuck schumer of new york who is a liberal? is this something that can be done across the country, liberal/conservative compromise with teeth and also with something for people who
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the republican boss isn't speaker boehner. it's not senator mitch mcconnell either. the person calling the shots for the gop is rush limbaugh. and rush makes
the republican boss isn't speaker boehner. it's not senator mitch mcconnell either. the person calling the shots for the gop is rush limbaugh. and rush makes
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that the right republicans have to be more conservative and push back even more on spending than john boehner is willing to do. so they are theological to this point. and that's when you get into trowel. because if they're theological, they're not prone to compromise. >> what unemployment rate can president obama leave the presidency in and claim to be a success on the economy? what does it have to be? it's 7.6 now. how long does it have to go for him to say i'm a success? >> there is no way to know that. >> under 7 is good, but it's going to be hard. >> sequestration is a compounding effect. it will build over time. >> thanks, sam stein. thank you, david corn. happy weekend for all of you. all three of you. all two of you. when we return, let me finish with the republicans' civil war over war. boy, it's about time this baby came. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. hat happened hat happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a state-o
that the right republicans have to be more conservative and push back even more on spending than john boehner is willing to do. so they are theological to this point. and that's when you get into trowel. because if they're theological, they're not prone to compromise. >> what unemployment rate can president obama leave the presidency in and claim to be a success on the economy? what does it have to be? it's 7.6 now. how long does it have to go for him to say i'm a success? >> there...